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Translated by jj i EDITH ABERCROMBIE SNOW jjgj If 1 i - 3 1 Published by Princeton University Press, at Princeton, New Jersey, 1945 W fi THESE TRANSLATIONS ARE DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MY PARENTS DANIEL WEBSTER ABERCROMBIE AND EMILY BRAINERD ABERCROMBIE FOREWORD THE POEMS included in this book came into being over a period of thirty years from 1908 to 1938 and were taken from seven dif ferent volumes. The tides of these volumes Der Weltjreund, Wir sind f Einander, Gerichtstag, Eeschworungen, Schlaj und Erwachen, Botschaft vom irdischen Leben indicate that they are not casual collections of verses but rather lyric works of unified content and structure. The fifty poems of this anthology are therefore seen out of their context. They are, moreover, trans lated poems. Translated poems are an impossibility. Whenever this impossibility becomes a possibility the translator, transcend ing his bounds, becomes a poet in his own right. Verse, which springs from the increased emotional pressure of human con sciousness, crystallizes language in the same way in which in creased mechanical pressure produces crystals from amorphous minerals. Amethysts cannot be translated. Similar pressure upon another crystalline substance however, may create a topaz. Such a translation is a rare good fortune. Every word has a different history in every language, a different world of associations and connotations. In everyday speech the content facilitates its own rendition. The poetic word, however, casts shadows history and associations resonate in it and give it life. The translator must choose such words that his own verse language casts corresponding shadows, so that his own lines may be filled with the resonating connotations that make the lyric into a work of art. For this reason the translators art is one of the most difficult and one of the most unrewarding arts. I am profoundly grateful to Mrs. Edith Abercrombie Snow for her years of unrelenting struggle with my poems, many of which are not easily accessible even in their native tongue. Al though I, as a foreigner, am not capable of estimating the full mi extent of her success, still I am deeply conscious o the fact that Mrs. Snow was the first to give the Anglo-American public access to that part of my life-work which I myself regard as the most important. FRANZ WERFEL Beverly Hills, California July, 1945 mil ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To FRANZ WERFEL I am indebted for the many hours he spent reading and discussing these poems with me and ex plaining their inner meaning. Mr. Werfels generously expressed faith and confidence in the work and his friendly encouragement are deeply appreciated. My thanks also to Dr. Harold S. Jantz for his scholarly criticism and his good offices in the matter of publication, to Dr. Gustave O. Arlt for his valued opinion and sug gestions rendered at the request of Mr. Werfel, and to Emmi Peter Akeret for her unfailing interest and inspira tion. With the exception of one poem, Exaltation, these trans lations are from poems selected from the volume entitled, Gedichte aus dreifiig Jahren, by Franz Werfel, printed in Stockholm, 1939, and published by the Behrmann-Fischer Verlag. The poems are from the following books of that anthology Jugendgedichte, 1908-1915 Der Weltfreund, Wir Sind, Einander In Krieg und Wirrer Zeit, 1914-1924 Der Gerichtstag, Beschworungen Neue Gedichte, 1925-1958 Schlaf und Erwachen Ein Totenpsalter, Buch der Unruh, Hymnarium, Gedichte 1938. Since the poems in this volume constitute only a selection and therefore cannot give the whole picture o Mr. Werfel as a poet, it is well for the reader to remember that no study of modern German poetry is complete without a knowledge of Franz Werfels poetic works. His poetry inaugurated, a fresh, new way of thinking, was couched in new forms, and thus had a deep influence on German youth and on European letters. Mr. Werfel was a great novelist and playwright, but it is as a poet that he will live longest. E. A. S... ... Read more

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Kapitel: Alma Mahler-Werfel, Die Vierzig Tage Des Musa Dagh, Jakobowsky Und Der Oberst, Der Tod Des Kleinbürgers, Jacobowsky Und Der Oberst, Das Lied Von Bernadette, Der Veruntreute Himmel, Eine Blaßblaue Frauenschrift, Franz-Werfel-Menschenrechtspreis, Verdi. Roman Der Oper. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Franz Werfel (September 10, 1890 - August 26, 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet. Born in Prague (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Werfel was the first of three children of a wealthy manufacturer of gloves and leather goods. His mother, Albine Kussi, was the daughter of a mill owner. His two sisters were Hanna (born 1896) and Marianne Amalie (born 1899). He was a contemporary and colleague of Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Martin Buber, and other Jewish intellectuals who flourished in the first decades of the 20th century. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army on the Russian front and in the press office in Vienna, where he met and fell in love with Alma Mahler. In 1920 Alma, widow of Gustav Mahler, divorced architect Walter Gropius in order to be with Werfel by whom she had had a son, Martin, who was born prematurely, and who soon died; they finally married in 1929. Werfel was already an established author, having assumed a leading place in German letters as an expressionist playwright. A journey in 1929 to the Middle East and encountering starving refugees inspired his novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh which drew world attention to the Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Turks. An identified Jew, Werfel left Austria after the Anschluss in 1938 and went to France. After the German invasion and occupation of France during World War II, and the deportation of French Jews to the Nazi concentration camps, Werfel had to flee again. With the assistance of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee in Marseille, he and his wife narrowly escaped the Nazi regime and traveled to the Unite...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Georg Trakl, Nikolaus Lenau, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ilse Aichinger, Johann Nepomuk Cosmas Michael Denis, Franz Werfel, Peter Rosegger, August Silberstein, Nathan Birnbaum, Friederike Mayröcker, Ernst Jandl, Michael Guttenbrunner, Johann Baptist Von Alxinger, Paula Von Preradović, Max Hölzer, Anton Wildgans, Jans Der Enikel. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Georg Trakl, né le 3 février 1887 à Salzbourg, Autriche et décédé le 3 novembre 1914 à Cracovie, est un poète autrichien. Il est l'un des représentants majeurs de l'expressionnisme. siècle. Sa poésie c'est la décadence, la ruine, le déclin de l'homme, la mort qui rôde dans la nuit. En mettant en scène des personnages indéterminés comme l'orpheline, le voyageur, le vieillard, le novice ou des figures nommées comme Kaspar Hauser, Elis ou Helian, la poésie de Georg Trakl donne très souvent l'impression d'être impersonnelle. Il écrit à son ami Erhard Buschbeck : « Je resterai toujours pour finir un pauvre Kaspar Hauser ». Le poète angoissé et torturé s'identifie de manière constante à son œuvre dont la genèse ne peut être pleinement comprise que par le rapport qui unit la poésie et la vie de Trakl. Si elle fait partie de l'expressionnisme, l'œuvre de Trakl en dépasse le simple cadre artistique. Georg Trakl en 1892Georg Trakl naît à Salzbourg, au numéro 2 de la Waagplatz dans une maison que la famille occupe depuis 1883. La famille est aisée, la maison est spacieuse. Le père de Trakl, Tobias Trakl, est un quincaillier protestant d'origine hongroise et sa mère Maria Catherina Trakl née Halik est catholique. La famille compte sept enfants. Il y a tout d'abord Wilhelm né le 7 mai 1868 à Wiener Neustadt, il est le fils de Tobias et de sa première femme Va...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Sigmund Freud, Franz Werfel, Karl Popper, Leo Perutz, Egon Erwin Kisch, Robert Musil, Max Reinhardt, Joseph Roth, Arnold Schönberg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Ralph Benatzky, Bruno Walter, Heinz Kohut, Anna Freud, Alma Mahler-Werfel, Otto von Habsburg, Ernst Polak, Hermann Hakel, Stefan Zweig, Friedrich Adler, Friedrich Torberg, Georg Kreisler, Otto Bauer, Soma Morgenstern, Hermann Broch, Hans Leo Przibram, Max Winter, Felix Salten, Ödön von Horváth, Bruno Kreisky, Peter Herz, Ernst Angel, Paul Felix Lazarsfeld, Leopold Andrian, Eric Kandel, Leon Askin, Albert Drach, Ernst Florian Winter, Paul Stefan, Hilde Spiel, Ernest Dichter, Leo Stern, Gerhard Bronner, Paul Wittgenstein, Friedl Fürnberg, Erich Fried, Ernst Lothar, Egon Wellesz, Ernst Krenek, Ernst Haeusserman, Hermann Leopoldi, Victor Gruen, Franz Mittler, Hans Habe, Joachim Stutschewsky, Johann Koplenig, Paul Zsolnay, Paul Hatvani, Otto Leichter, Karl Farkas, Andre Asriel, Karl König, Julius Brammer, Jean Améry, Georg Ludwig von Trapp, Hannes Schneider, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Joseph Buttinger, Theodore Bikel, Emmerich Kálmán, Alfred Polgar, Hans Weigel, Felix Braun, Robert Gilbert, Eugenie Schwarzwald, Albert Ehrenstein, Otto Soyka, Marie Jahoda, Marie Pappenheim, Emil Alphons Rheinhardt, Walter Hollitscher, Otto Preminger, Alma Rosé, Marcel Rubin, Anna Gmeyner, Franz Marischka, Manfred Ackermann, Lucian O. Meysels, Paul Knepler, Georg Knepler, Elisabeth Bergner, Jacques Hannak, Alfred Grünwald, Harry Seidler, Marcel Prawy, Eva Reich, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Gitta Alpár, Theodor Kramer, Hans Jaray, Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer, Emmy Freundlich, Ignatz Waghalter, Berta Zuckerkandl-Szeps, Anton Kuh, Norbert Glas, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, Abisch Me...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=102000 ... Read more

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Chapters: The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Bluebeard, Andrew Goldberg, Ararat, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, Screamers, the Story of the Last Thought, Nahapet, Edgar Hilsenrath, the Burning Tigris, My Son Shall Be Armenian, Armenian Genocide Related Music, P.l.u.c.k., La Masseria Delle Allodole, the Armenian Genocide, Stanley Kerr, Ravished Armenia, Mayrig, Ils Sont Tombés. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 75. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is a 1933 novel by Austrian-Jewish author Franz Werfel based around an event that took place on Musa Dagh in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. The book was first published as Die Vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh in German in November of 1933. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh achieved great international success and has been credited with awakening the world to the evidence of the persecution of the Armenians. The novel is a fictionalized account based on the real-life defense of Musa Dagh's Armenians who were facing systematic deportations and massacres ordered by the Young Turkish government. Although written as a novel, the historical background content of the book has generally been accepted as fact. In the 1930s, the Republic of Turkey pressured the United States State department to prevent MGM Studios from producing a film based on the novel. A filmed version of the story was eventually made independently and was released theatrically in 1982. Franz Werfel had served as a corporal and telephone operator in the artillery corps of the Austro-Hungarian military during the First World War on the Russian front. His experience of the horrors he witnessed during the war was said to have influenced him during the course of writing the book. His reasoning to write the novel is given on the first page of the b...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1062803 ... Read more

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This volume is the first comprehensive bibliography of all Werfel publications in German language and thus a complete history of the publication of Werfel's works. All works are arranged alphabetically by title, followed by all other editions grouped by publisher. Each bibliographical entry contains the edition's designation, all the information from the title sheet, a description of the volume, the location and detailed explanatory notes. ... Read more

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Venedig erscheint in zahlreichen Werken der deutschen Literaur, so auch in den Werken Verdi. Roman der Oper von Franz Werfel und Der Tod in Venedig von Thomas Mann, und zwar in Verbindung mit der Künstlerkrise der vorhandenen Protagonisten. Venedig ist aber nicht nur ein Schauplatz, sondern ein lebendiger Organismus, der eine besondere Beziehung zu den Farben, zu der Musik, zu der Kunst und zu dem Wasser hat: die sinkende Stadt, die für sein eigenes Leben kämpft. Wie erscheint die Stadt in diesen zwei Werken? Wie hängt sie mit der Künstlerkrise der einzelnen Künstler zusammen? Wie führt sie zum Tode des Künstlers in dem einen und zur Wiedergeburt in dem anderen Werk? Die Autorin Tímea Tallián gibt einen Überblick über die Entstehungsgeschichte der zwei literarischen Werken, über die Bedeutung von Venedig in den beiden. Darauf aufbauend analysiert sie, wie sich Venedig mit der Künstlerkrise der Protagonisten verbindet, wie die in den zwei Werken dargestellten Künstlerschicksale miteinander in Zusammenhang gestellt werden können. Das Buch richtet sich an alle, die sich für Venedig, für die Kunst und für die Literatur interessieren. ... Read more

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Das Hauptthema dieses Buches ist die Heilige Bernadette und ihr Leben. Ein armes Mädchen, das ausgewählt wurde, eine Quelle zu entdecken, welche die Kraft zu heilen besitzt. Ein Märchen oder eine wahre Begebenheit? Hat diese Quelle wirklich heilende Kräfte? Wann wird ein Wunder als Wunder anerkannt? Und wie war es mit der Dame, die Bernadette sah? Dieses Buch versucht Antworten auf diese und viele weitere Fragen zu finden, es beschäftigt sich mit den Menschen, deren Leben Bernadette beeinflusste und denen Bernadette Hoffnung schenkte. Einer von ihnen war auch Franz Werfel. Ihm, seinem Leben und seinem Buch über die Heilige Bernadette wird viel Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt liegt in der literarischen Theorie. Das Buch widmet sich der Analyse des historischen Romans und vergleicht Franz Werfels Roman "Das Lied von Bernadette" mit Dr. Franz Böhms Drama "La petite voyante". Bernadette hat schon viele Leben geändert und viele Seelen berührt. Erfahren auch Sie ihre Geschichte... ... Read more

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Die Zielsetzung meiner Arbeit ist zu beschreiben, wiedie Musik von Verdi und die von seinem ¿Gegenpol¿Wagner in Franz Werfels Werk ¿Verdi,Roman der Oper¿dargestellt wird, und welche Funktion die Musik imWerk hat. Ich habe die Musikdarstellung mit derMethode der Intermedialität untersucht. Als Ergebnismeiner Forschung kann ich feststellen, dass die Musikim Roman eine strukturbildende Rolle spielt. DieDiskussionen schildern über die Musik immergegensätzliche Meinungen. Diese "Dichotomie" der zweiMusikaufassungen ist die organisatorische Kraft desRomans.Ich würde mein Buch nicht nur für Musikfreundeempfehlen, es kann für diejenigen auch nützlich sein,die sich dafür interessieren, wie Musik in derLiteratur reflektiert werden kann, oder wie dieRelationen zwischen unterschiedlichen Künstenuntersucht werden können. ... Read more

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Bernadette
I have always been fascinated with the film THE SONG OF BERNADETTE written by Franz Werfel in thanksgiving for his safe delivery from the Nazis in occupied France during the second World War.
I would like to complement his work further and inform this present generation that a Miracle is still happening every day in Lourdes
as a result of the Heavenly visitation on February 11th 1858. ... Read more